The Rigor Of The Common Core by Terry Heick The next time someone tells you the Common Core is about rigor, show them this graphic–2010 Kentucky anchor standards for Middle School English-Language Arts. Complex, yes? There are several misunderstandings about the Common Core standards, and this post isn’t about dispelling them, nor is it to…
Like every teacher must translate their knowledge and personality into a kind of “voice” and personality, it’s not much different on twitter.
Reflective Teaching Questions: A 30-Day Blogging Challenge For Teachers by TeachThought Staff We’ve talked about “reflective teaching” before, and shared ways to be a more reflective teacher as well. Well, through the work of Beth Leidolf and Justine Hughes, September is Reflective Teacher month at TeachThought. Beth and Justine have created a blogging challenge for…
Kid President gives a pep talk with humorous one-liners, playful editing, and a a direct address to both teachers and students.
If A Child Is Off-Task… by TeachThought Staff Quick-hitting thought someone sent to us via email recently that resonated with us: If a child is off-task, perhaps the problem is not the child but the task –Alfie Kohn If a child is off task, perhaps the problem is not the child but the task –Alfie…
This reductive approach extends to industrialized practices of grouping, scheduling, and packaging of students, curriculum, & performance.
Assessment matrixes can be used by teachers to think about rigor when designing assessments to think more clearly about cognitive demand.
Want To Transform Education? Start In Your Classroom. by Terry Heick If it’s a standards-based, outcomes-based, institutionally-centered (and nationally participative) game we want, you’d be hard-pressed to find a better combination than Understanding by Design units (i.e., Wiggins) anchored around power standards (e.g., Strong, Silver, Perini, Dufour) that are then delivered through differentiated instruction (i.e.,…
What am I expected to cause in students? What am I supposed to accomplish? Whatever the answer, that’s my job.
Getting the conditions for self-directed learning right as a teacher requires an understanding of how people learn to think & problem-solve.
Grit In The Classroom Has To Be A Dialogue contributed by Thomas Hoerr The rush to grit is pretty intense, but so is the push-back. I’ve been writing about grit in articles and giving presentations on the subject. I’ve spoken to schools and parents; presented at conferences; and have been a guest on NPR. Universally,…
Resistance to ‘school work’ isn’t new, but if students literally—en masse—aren’t inspired to learn, why aren’t we more concerned?
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